Re: Anthology Aids Harlan Ellison in AOL Piracy Lawsuit

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Quinn) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Quinn) writes:
> >> 
> >> A society without censorship would be intolerable.  
> >
> >Can you expand on this, please?
> >
> >Just what information must a "tolerable" society censor?
> 
> Your credit card number?

In a society of zero censorship, a better system of proving identity
for the purpose of finanacial transacations than the stupid and
rickety system of the current creditcard system.

> Pornographic pictures of your child?  

Would provoke an extreme emotional reaction, yes, but said publication
would not bring down civilization, or actaully damage anything other
my own sensitivities.  Wah.  I'll live. (Especially since it would be
lost in the noise of similar publications, of interested to only an
extremely small and relatively harmless class of people.)

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